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Methodist Celina Medical Center Breaks Ground In North Texas

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Celina’s first hospital is officially on its way to becoming a reality.

On Tuesday, April 4, Celina and Methodist Health Systems officials gathered for a ceremonial groundbreaking at the site of a future hospital complex that will include a five-story hospital, a medical office building and healthcare services to one of fastest-growing cities in the area.

“I know that we’re surrounded by dirt right now, but our construction teams will be carving out more than 520,000 square feet of parking lots, roads and sidewalks that are needed to build this beautiful hospital that brings hope, healing and pride to this world-class community,” said Pam Stoyanoff, president and chief operating officer of Methodist Health System.

There were multiple hints of Celina’s identity at the groundbreaking, which featured hay bales painted in Celina orange and Methodist Health Systems blue, performances by the Celina High School Choir, a welcome from Celina ISD cheerleaders and a video highlighting the city’s history as a “Rollertown.”

Rendering Credit: Methodist Health System

The ceremony for Methodist Celina Medical Center also included hints to Celina’s future, featuring displayed renderings of the facility that is slated to serve patients from around the area, including Collin and Denton counties.The facility is a $200 million project over 46 acres that is expected to take two years to build.

A groundbreaking ceremony was originally scheduled for Jan. 31 but was postponed due to inclement winter weather. At the time, Stoyanoff told the Celina Record that construction would not be held up and that work had already begun on the site.

The April 4 event served as a chance to officially celebrate the beginning of construction on the site, located at the southeast corner of Dallas North Tollway and FM 428.

“Driving growth to this booming part of North Texas is a big part of the strategic plan developed by our board,” said Randall Canedy, chairman of the Methodist Health System Board of Directors. “We know this town is just going to keep growing. That’s why our plans for the hospital include shell space for future expansion. In addition to the hospital itself, we will be putting up professional office buildings for our physicians to work in, and soon we look forward to adding more family health centers in and around Celina to take care of you and your families.”

The new hospital is slated to open in 2025 and will host a variety of services, including cardiovascular care, cancer care, women’s services, orthopedics and robotic surgery, according to a press release. It will also include 30 medical-surgical beds, 10 post-partum beds, eight intensive care unit beds and 12 emergency department beds. It will also include three operating rooms, a daVinci surgical robot, and shell space for an additional operating room, as well as a cardiac catheterization lab and two procedure rooms.

 

Source: Celina Record

The St. Joe Company, Tallahassee Memorial Health Care And Florida State University Break Ground On New HealthCare Campus

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The St. Joe Company, Florida State University and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare celebrated the construction kickoff Tuesday, January 17, 2023 of a health care campus in Panama City Beach that will bring together clinicians, researchers and students to better serve the medical needs of the Florida Panhandle.

The FSU Health-Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Medical Campus will be located on an 87-acre parcel of land just minutes from the Latitude Margaritaville Watersound community, St. Joe’s 55-plus community that recently sold its 1,000th home.

“Today’s celebration represents a very important step forward for our community,” says Jorge Gonzalez, President and CEO of The St. Joe Company. “This medical campus, backed by the expertise of Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare and Florida State University, is a crucial element for supporting the health and well-being of residents and visitors in every stage of life. It also has the potential to create synergistic opportunities between research, education, and clinical delivery, to enhance quality of life throughout the region and beyond.”

Development plans include an 80,000-square-foot medical office building scheduled to be complete in 2024. This medical office building is planned to ultimately house TMH Physician Partners – Primary Care, Tallahassee Memorial Urgent Care Center, an ambulatory surgery center, as well as cardiology and orthopedic services. Plans include a 100-bed hospital with an emergency center and other inpatient services, including surgery, cardiology procedures and imaging, expected to be completed in 2027.

The project will also include opportunities for FSU researchers focused on aging and digital health, as well as residency programs and educational rotations for FSU medical students.

“Today’s construction kickoff comes at a pivotal time for TMH as we celebrate our 75th anniversary this year,” said Mark O’Bryant, President & CEO of TMH, which serves a 21-county area in North Florida, Georgia and Alabama. “We have grown from a small, city-owned hospital into a comprehensive healthcare system. As the population in our region increases, TMH has identified a substantial need to expand healthcare services. Over the past seven and a half decades, we’ve built a reputation for excellent, compassionate and local care, and we are proud to now offer our services to the Panama City Beach communities.”

Over the past several years, Florida State University has been growing its health research portfolio while also pursuing partnerships with major health care systems such as TMH and others. It’s also increased opportunities for students through its College of Medicine, opening a physician’s assistant training program, and is welcoming the first cohort of its new doctoral program in nursing at the College of Nursing this fall.

“FSU has long enjoyed being a part of this community through our Panama City Campus,” said FSU President Richard McCullough. “Now, we’re looking forward to expanding our presence and continuing to serve the residents here through this health care initiative. Research universities can play an important role in a vibrant health care delivery system, and FSU looks forward to playing that role right here in Bay County. This area is experiencing an incredible boom in population and the possibilities — and needs — have never been greater. There are tremendous opportunities for collaboration on research, education, and clinical health care across the region — and I’m excited that it begins right here with this medical campus.”

The university also plans to break ground on the FSU Health Tallahassee Center on the TMH campus later this year with the support of a $125 million appropriation from the Florida Legislature. Gonzalez, O’Bryant and McCullough were joined at the groundbreaking by U.S. Rep. Neal Dunn, R-FL, and Panama City Beach Mayor Mark Sheldon as well as TMH Vice President and Chief Health Operations Officer Andrew Starr and other local officials from the Bay County area.

The project has generated considerable interest in the Florida Panhandle and throughout the state. Estimates show that Florida will have a shortfall of 4,700 primary care physicians by 2030 and 60,000 nurses by 2035. At the same time, the state is growing. Florida was the fastest growing state last year, with a population growth of 1.9%.

“Because we are a nonprofit, community-based healthcare system, we recognize that TMH is a community asset that drives the health of our region’s residents,” Starr said. “As we grow, we remain dedicated to the sacred trust given to us by our patients to care for them when they need it most. This is why we are developing strategic partnerships throughout the region and investing in the most advanced lifesaving technology. We are building the best-in-class healthcare system our region deserves.”

View photos from the Construction Celebration here.
View a video of the Construction Celebration here.

 

Source: BusinessWire

Developers Prepare To Break Ground On $35M Medical Office Park West Of Fort Worth

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A rapidly growing community west of Fort Worth will soon become home to a $35M medical office park aimed at improving healthcare access in the area.

A rendering of the new medical office park to be constructed in Willow Park (PHOTO CREDIT: Grace Hebert Curtis Architects)

Willow Park is the second-largest city in Parker County, an area that saw its population increase by 27% between 2010 and 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The 8.5-acre site acquired by real estate investment firm Velocis is located in the Interstate 20 corridor between Fort Worth and Weatherford, where a network of doctors has emerged to meet growing demand for medical care in the community.

“Our building is there to serve what I would call an underserved community,” Velocis co-founder and partner Mike Lewis told Bisnow. “The doctors are telling us that they have the patients, but the patients are driving to Fort Worth. This is giving an opportunity to serve them in their community instead of them going elsewhere for healthcare.”

According to census data, 86% of residents in Parker County were insured as of 2020. This high rate of healthcare coverage, along with the diverse mix of ages in the community, was appealing to Velocis.

“It’s a very stable community with good incomes,” Lewis said. “It’s not an area that you would go in and build and worry about patients not being able to afford healthcare.”

The project, developed by Prime Healthcare Properties and designed by Grace Hebert Curtis Architects, will include two speculative medical office buildings comprising 100K SF.

“Ethan Garner, senior vice president with JLL Dallas and leasing agent for the project, is already in talks with several potential tenants, including one practice that could occupy a large swath of space,” Lewis said. “By the time we finish this building, we should be very well leased, if not completely leased. We’ve done our homework and feel a high level of confidence that there is enough demand.”

Texas Health Willow Park hospital is located adjacent to the site, as well as several ambulatory surgery centers that are under construction.

“This project aims to build upon the area’s existing community of doctors,” Lewis said. “These will be very classic medical office buildings where you have doctors that want to be in a facility where you get a lot of referrals back and forth. We want doctors that complement each other.”

Demand from the nation’s aging population as well as the industry’s stability during down cycles have driven high levels of investment activity from companies like Velocis in recent years. Lewis said his team has been bullish on healthcare since the company’s inception in 2010, which kicked off with the purchase of a 100K SF MOB in Austin.

“Everybody needs healthcare, so it’s almost recession-proof,” Lewis said. “All of our assets in the medical field have been solid performers.”

Lewis said his team had planned for two phases of construction, but the high degree of demand will likely necessitate that both buildings are constructed concurrently. The project is expected to break ground this year and wrap up in 2023.

“We are very eager to get started, mainly because we have demand right now that would warrant us completing by a certain date,” Lewis said. “We want to make sure we are up and ready and that it works for these prospects we are talking to.”

 

Source: Bisnow